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🇺🇸🇯🇵 An American soldier shares chocolate with a Japanese girl during the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1946.

🇺🇸 Henry Johnson, nicknamed “Black Death,” was an American soldier in World War I who single-handedly repelled a German attack. Though severely wounded—stabbed, shot, and struck by a grenade—he fought with extraordinary courage, killing and wounding 24 enemy soldiers on his own.

🇺🇸🇯🇵 American soldier raises the Confederate flag at Okinawa, 1945.

🇺🇸Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the first Black American aviator in the US Navy, in the cockpit of a Corsair fighter jet in 1950. He led a six-plane reconnaissance patrol over North Korea near the Chosin Reservoir.

🇺🇸 Techincal Sargent Ben Kuroki, the only American of Japanese descent in the U.S. Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific.

🇺🇸🇮🇹 American soldier (of Japanese descent) of 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd U.S. Regimental Combat Team with a soldier of Italian 11th Pack Mule Company, Castellina Sector, Italy, 12 Jul 1944.

🇺🇸 Former US President Barack Obama as a child with his mother, Ann Dunham, in Hawaii. (1960s)

🇺🇸 Construction of the Twin Towers in New York city, World Trade Center, 1970.

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇵🇭 On April 12, 1945, U.S. soldiers advance past a dead Japanese soldier near Balete Pass, Luzon, Philippine Islands.

🇺🇸 Black Americans lined up to volunteer in the Ethiopian military after Italy invaded that country. New York City, 1935. [1382x960]

🇺🇸 1927: Just 23 years after the Wright brothers became the First in Flight, another American—Charles Lindbergh—became the first man to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic.

🇺🇸🇵🇭 The Buffalo Soldiers (in San Francisco) on their way to the Philippine Islands: Many of them were anti-imperialist and some would later desert to the Philippine army (c. 1899)

🇺🇸 On August 1, 1790, the first U.S. census, which had begun in May of that year, was completed. The count was carried out by U.S. marshals. The results were finalized on August 2, 1790, showing that at the time the country had a population of 3,929,326 people, of whom 697,681 were enslaved.

🇺🇸 On December 16, 1907, in a projection of US naval power, Teddy Roosevelt launches his Great White Fleet. Embodying "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”, the fleets world tour boosted US prestige abroad, foreshadowing 20th-century naval dominance.

🇺🇸 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, once said: "General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation.... From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul."

Conservative legal group aims to export its rightwing Christian mission beyond US borders: Alliance Defending Freedom has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns to push its ultra conservative Christian values

🇺🇸 In 1937, as the world prepared for another war, the United States Army faced a problem as simple as it was crucial: how to feed soldiers with something compact, tough, and nutritious… even if it wasn't exactly edible?

🇺🇸 In February 1942, American citizens of Japanese origin were relocated to internment camps.

🇺🇸 The San Francisco Examiner, California, October 28, 1932.

TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE THE DUMBEST MOTHERFUCKERS ON EARTH

🇺🇸 1905 New York City Census:

Trump is imposing a “total and complete blockade” on all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela. Right now, no one is safe from this man.

Trump threatens neo-colonial war of plunder against Venezuela

Rep. Chip Roy Warns of Sharia Law Threat, Calls to 'Save Western Civilization' Now